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- Category: Advanced Engineering
- Ferrari race ahead after encouraging judgement from the CJEU
- Path to Unlocking the Full Potential of Photovoltaic Power Generation
- Which Companies Are Filing Hyperloop Patents?
- Boris Johnson’s “ambitious” ten point plan for a green industrial revolution
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Automotive Round Table: The EV landscape promises a bright shiny future – but there will be bumps in the road?
- Which companies are filing e-scooter patents?
- The Automotive Transformation Fund – a new funding competition to move the automotive sector to zero emissions
- NASA’s Lunar Loo Challenge
- Watch this SpaceX
- Flying taxis – are they just around the corner or a pipe dream?
- Category: Chemistry & Materials
- Category: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- China’s new patent law – important changes for the pharmaceutical sector
- Regeneron v Kymab – Principles capable of general application
- Seeing Article 3(d) with 2020 vision – revisited
- Interpreting Article 3(a) of supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) regulation with respect to combination products
- Artificial intelligence and antibiotics: overcoming excluded subject-matter hurdles
- A Whistlestop Guide to SPCs
- Category: Branding & Design
- Systematic arrangement of colour combinations transported to the CJEU
- The New UKIPO Address For Service Rules
- Sometimes even a smile won’t save you…
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- OFF-WHITE wins its appeal at the General Court to register the OFF-WHITE black and white logo trade mark
- Manchester United sues the producers of Football Manager® for trade mark infringement
- A second scoop of Mr Whippy
- Brighton and Hove Albion FC apply to register the ALBION trade mark
- Will digital be the new norm for fashion brands following Covid-19 pandemic & how will this impact designers’ right to Community unregistered design protection?
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- EUIPO aiming for common practice on examination of 3D trade marks – a new practice note with effect from July 2020
- Check mate for check mark
- Category: Cleantech & Energy
- Are you going round in circles? You should be.
- (Artificially) Intelligent Patent Searching?
- Recycling Li-ion Batteries – The Next Challenge for Battery Innovation?
- Innovation in electricity storage – a global report by the EPO and the IEA
- How private is your product testing, and when should you file for a patent?
- Britain coals it a day! – Great Britain goes two whole months without coal
- A new funding competition on industrial energy transformation
- UK Sustainable Innovation Fund
- World IP Day 2020 – Innovate for a Green Future
- Category: Computers & Software
- The EUIPO is now a member of the WIPO Digital Access Service
- Commercially useful patents for the Internet of Things
- Unwired Planet v Huawei – with the FRAND licensing saga now concluded what have we learnt?
- Call for views on the future of artificial intelligence and the UK IP framework
- A primer on patenting artificial intelligence in Europe
- WIPO PROOF: A new service to securely timestamp your digital assets
- The Rise of Ocado: An Intellectual Property Success Story
- Move over Medical
- Can AI be designated as an inventor on a European Patent Application?
- UK IPO Approach to AI Related Patent Applications
- Category: Consumer Products & Manufacturing
- Category: Electronic & Electrical Devices
- Category: Financial Services & Business Methods
- Category: Featured News
- ViCo by default – Oral Proceedings by Videoconference at the EPO
- New IPO report – How different UK industries use IP rights
- Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs): How will the border solution between Ireland & Northern Ireland affect SPCs post-Brexit?
- Brexit & IP: The Concise Version
- Brexit & IP: Not too much, not too little
- Brexit & IP: Everything you have ever wanted to know about Brexit
- UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) introduces temporary fee reductions
- Unitary Patent Project Update
- Promoting UK innovation in a post Covid world
- Breaking News – Update on G 1/19 Simulation Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal
- 2020 MacRobert Award Winner Announced – JCB’s Electric Digger
- Regeneron v Kymab – Sufficiency explained through transgenic mice and teleporters
- Celebrating outstanding British innovation – 2020 MacRobert Award finalists announced
- What role will fuel cells play in future electric vehicles?
- The End of (Interrupted) Days is Nigh
- New UK trade mark applications for BLACK LIVES MATTER and I CAN’T BREATHE spark outrage – and they have now been withdrawn
- Smart Homes: protecting AI and IoT inventions at the European Patent Office
- Electric Vehicle Charging is Moving Forwards
- A new funding competition for projects on sustainable plastic solutions
- EUTM Registration Cancelled on Grounds of Bad Faith
- Sources of Funding for Innovative Companies in the UK
- European and UK Patent Office Responses to Coronavirus – and Service as Normal at Reddie & Grose
- Public availability at confidential technical standards committees
- Responsible Innovation
- What was the “source of action” for Harry and Meghan’s latest trade mark filings?
- Call for rapid sanitising technology for ambulances
- A new funding competition to encourage UK business-led innovation in response to a global pandemic
- Some IP subsidies and rewards in China will soon be abolished
- The UK manufacturing sector responds to the call for ventilators
- The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement does NOT comply with German law
- British Science Week – what computers can learn from children
- A fight against time: Coronavirus vs Biotechnology
- 3.3 million patent applications were filed in 2018
- Who’s the Boss?
- I guess this is goodbye, old pals?
- EPO announces official fee increase
- You’re shouting at tea! Brand damage by association, or a storm in a teacup?
- Australian engineers develop “British weather-proof” solar cells
- CJEU answers UK reference arising from the UK High Court litigation between Sky and SkyKick on issues relating to bad faith and validity
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Royals and Trade Marks in the Press
- VAR: is technology ruining ‘the beautiful game’?
- Snow Business
- UK and EU Intellectual Property post-Brexit:
- Seeing Article 3(d) with 2020 vision
- EPO Berlin office to become centre of expertise on Artificial Intelligence
- Option is a failure with combination SPCs
- Revisions to the Rules of Procedure of the EPO Boards of Appeal
- What does the US-China trade deal mean for pharmaceutical patent holders?
- READY… OR MAYBE NOT QUITE YET?
- More countries join the Hague System
- Vertical axis wind turbines – Good enough to blow away the competition?
- I was gonna register a trade mark, but I got high……
- THE FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES
- “Possibly the least poetic reason to ever make some art” – Banksy and the Gross Domestic Product Store
- If the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain – does that demonstrate genuine rain in the EU?
- Unleash Innovation – will the government have a positive innovation strategy post-Friday 13th?
- Update on the Patent Box
- Win-Win Lose
- How has the Design of the iPhone 11 been Protected in Europe?
- European Patent Office and China National Intellectual Property Administration announce enhanced PCT cooperation
- Backlash against Backcountry.com
- Getting the scoop on Mr Whippy
- The shape of things to come… or perhaps not
- The Internet of Medical Things: Revolutionising Healthcare
- European patents help SMEs commercialise high-potential inventions, new study shows
- Quantum Supremacy
- Too Big to Pay? Supreme Court say: “No Way!”
- Registered Community Design Invalidity Decisions at the EUIPO
- Sustainability and IP – If Carlsberg made Sustainable Packaging…
- Electroceuticals: body hacks that aren’t for quacks
- Sports Technology and the Fastest-ever Marathon
- Science hits the catwalk
- Guide to Invalidating a Registered Community Design
- What’s in a Name… Liverpool FC fails to score LIVERPOOL in the trade mark world
- Modelling the Future of Patent Protection
- Patents are only part of the pharma picture
- Hague System Applications Are Becoming More Popular
- It’s Certifiably Good. Protecting the Planet but can you Protect your Mark?
- Can we build it? Yes, we can! (But it may be too long…..)
- The UK transport sector’s journey to zero carbon emissions
- Digest Of UK Energy Statistics 2019 – Renewables provide a third of UK electricity generation
- The inventions keeping plastics off the menu
- SMEs using intellectual property rights are more likely to achieve high growth
- Antibodies at the European Patent Office
- Carbon Dioxide Removal: The Future of the Fight Against Climate Change?
- What’s in a Name?
- UK IPO Report on Artificial Intelligence Innovation – Aye Aye AI!
- IRONMAN triathletes really are IRON MAN superheroes
- Next Generation technologies for a Low Carbon Future
- Amazon.com is Trialling a New Procedure to Tackle Patent Infringement
- Global Offshore Wind 2019
- Robin Ellis joins Reddie & Grose Munich office
- Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) Manufacturing Waiver – Article 5 goes epic
- Wind and solar will provide 50% of global power by 2050, but this may still not be enough to meet the 2 degree climate change target.
- Are renewable energies catching up?
- International Year of the Periodic Table – can a chemical element be patented?
- Yearly Review of the Patent Cooperation Treaty
- IP Stars 2019/20
- IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals 2019
- Autonomous Vehicle Technologies: LIDAR
- UK IPO Excluded Subject matter & Hitachi: Saved by the bell.
- The last straw, what next?
- EPO boards of appeal annual report 2018
- Game of Stones
- Will the EPO introduce deferred examination?
- Singapore Offers Fast Track Patent Grant Process for AI inventions
- Climate Change: is technology rising to the challenge?
- Third time lucky? EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal referred issue of plant patentability again
- Toyota Driving for Electric Vehicle Cooperation?
- Solid-state Batteries – A Potential Game-Changer in Energy Storage?
- Decisions of the UK IPO relating to Computer Software and Excluded Subject Matter
- New Partner promotion
- Lorraine Kelly is a brand, so should she have trade mark protection?
- The Future Of Automotive Powertrains
- Oral proceedings in Haar – it’s no laughing matter
- Can you patent a computer-implemented simulation in Europe?
- WTR1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2019
- Unhappy Valentine for Bayer
- Reddie & Grose third annual open day for trainee examiners from the UK Intellectual Property Office
- What has happened to the UPC?
- Breaking: New referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal on double-patenting
- Purity can be unconventional, a new position for the EPO boards of appeal (T 1085/13)
- IP Protection in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Not So Supreme…
- Roses are red, violets are blue, I wrote a blog on BUTLERS IN THE BUFF specially for you
- Is it time to rethink the patent drawing requirements?
- What do they call a ‘Big Mac’ in Europe?
- Brexit and CPVRs
- Brexit and SPCs
- EPO Patenting Blockchain Conference, 4 December 2018
- Brexit & IP: The Concise Version
- Brexit & IP: Not too much, not too little
- Brexit & IP: Everything you have ever wanted to know about Brexit
- The intractable question of “inadmissible” or “late filed” appeals – G1/18
- Lost in translation: Are animal models predictive of a treatment effect?
- Common patent strategy considerations for startups
- Never mind the Brexit – here comes the EU Trade Mark Directive!
- A Bright Future for Solar Energy
- Patenting Inventions In Space
- Choco-tech: A Christmas Selection Box
- Deal Or No Deal – Update on IP rights after Brexit
- Substance or device – a distinction without a difference?
- The need for (data) speed
- UK rights can still be enforced in EU, in spite of the triggering of Brexit
- CASE OF THE DAY: Leicester City Football Club 1 – 0 Leeds City Football Club
- An EU (SPINNING) class in trade marks becoming generic terms…
- Patents for self-driving cars under the microscope
- No pain, no gain: Plausibility in Warner-Lambert v Actavis
- Edible insects: Branding and Innovation
- BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court unanimously dismisses Warner-Lambert’s painful Lyrica appeal
- 2018 Changes to the EPO’s Guidelines for Examination
- Legal 500 – Tier 1 for patents
- Lord Kitchin applies the “markedly different” infringement approach in Actavis v Eli Lilly in Icescape v Ice-world
- Rangers secure trade mark RFC. No, they don’t mean ‘rugby football club’…
- EPO Guidelines for Examination 2018
- The Dearman Engine – power from thin air
- World Food Day! Patentable foods: The “Impossible” and the eggless
- Funding for Deep Technology: Interview with Paul Loustalan
- Between The (Spread) Sheets – Patentability of UIs in the US
- Rising Stars
- New guidelines from the EPO
- Japanese Automotive Companies being overtaken in the race for self-driving cars
- Planning for “No Deal” – IP Rights after Brexit
- Rise of the machines – Is Artificial Intelligence patentable?
- Plausibility and non-working embodiments
- More to clever packaging than just looks
- US claim construction at the English High Court – Chugai Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd v UCB & Celltech
- Is there a high chance of US and UK courts grappling with medicinal cannabis patents?
- Driverless cars take a step towards the streets of London
- CJEU rules that mutated organisms are covered by the GMO Directive
- Out with the old and in with not so new
- A Goodyear for Electric Vehicles
- UKIPO confirms that the UK will protect all existing EU trade marks and registered Community designs when the country leaves the EU
- Excluded Subject Matter: A Landmark Decision from the UK IPO
- One year later, how has Actavis v Eli Lilly impacted on patent scope in the UK?
- How autonomous vehicles will change IP strategies
- Court of Appeal grapples with novelty of overlapping ranges in Jushi v OCV
- Louboutin’s infamous red sole trade mark not considered to fall within the shape exclusions for trade mark protection
- Unbound London
- Green Channel Alternatives
- Kymouse’s stay of execution
- DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed
- Fold the phone… flexible devices?
- Court of Appeal sounds out the CJEU on the question of infringement jurisdiction
- The Meghan Markle & Friends Effect
- Celebrity tattoo artist’s prickly reaction to the name of a nearby cactus shop
- Secrets, Patents and Driverless Cars
- IP Stars
- The UK Ratifies the UPC
- Celebrating female inventors on World IP Day!
- Nestlé Cannot Catch a Break
- Regeneron v Kymab – Part 1: Sufficiency
- Regeneron v Kymab – Part II: Interpretation and Infringement
- Auf Wiedersehen, PET!
- MBL seminar on Conducting Effective IP Due Diligence
- China drives another record year for applications at WIPO
- Internet of Things – Anticipated Patenting Trends in Europe
- Reddie & Grose LLP appoints Alice Findlay as Partnership Chairman and promotes Paul Loustalan to Partner
- Quality vs quantity at the European Patent Office
- Some rules may be about to change, but is this going to change the game?
- Patenting the end of plastic pollution
- Validation of European Patents for Cambodia
- Mind The Gap! – How far are we from gender parity amongst Patent Inventors?
- Brexit Update: With just over a year to go, the European Commission published their draft withdrawal agreement on February 28th 2018
- Sky v SkyKick: Sky Plc’s claim for trade mark infringement is ‘kicked’ into the long grass
- Fashion Week brings a bit of fun with brand owners’ trade marks
- ‘Haters Gonna Hate’ – Taylor Swift shakes off copyright infringement claim
- Louboutin’s infamous red sole is potentially an invalid trade mark in Europe – just out is a second AG opinion
- Visit from UK IPO and JPO examiners
- Winter Olympics 2018: turbulence over Team GB skeleton suits
- Reddie & Grose opens office in Munich
- ALEXANDER the not-so-great
- UK IPO fee changes from 6 April 2018
- The limits of dictionaries in the interpretation of patent claims
- Good news for Coca-Cola trade marks in the EU
- Formally granted marketing authorisation required for SPC applications
- “Obvious to try” and clinical trials: Actavis v ICOS
- EPO study gives evidence for fourth industrial revolution
- The changing landscape of US Innovation
- Meghan Markle to boost the brand value of the British Monarchy?
- New pills instead of windmills – European Medicine Agency to relocate to Amsterdam
- Applying Actavis v Eli Lilly
- Best mode – an update
- Consumers not in the Knowledge – the shape of the London Taxi not distinctive enough to be a trade mark
- New Patent Prosecution Highway pilot programme launched
- New European Union Certification Marks
- Neural machine translation for patent documents
- Why you should pay your PCT fees: lessons learned from the EPO Board of Appeal decision J 19/16
- EPO Guidelines for Examination 2017 – a review of the changes
- UK IPO official patent fees to be increased
- The curse of being too catchy
- 2017 Trainee intake
- T 1983/14: The inescapable trap, but not as we know it
- Happy 400th birthday, GB1!
- IP rights following Brexit – the view from the EU
- The “Knead” for Trade Mark protection!
- UK IPO consultation on increasing official patent fees
- You’ll have to do better than that! An update on plausibility at the EPO
- Who is the notional businessman and does it matter?
- Coins and cloaking devices – just another day for Toyota
- The EPO publishes the first Unitary Patent Guide
- CRISPR – an update
- Scam Wars – A New Hope? Well, maybe…
- Significant EPO rule change affects patentability of plants and animals
- UK Supreme Court gives landmark decision on key infringement issues
- Quality service from the EPO?
- Thought about selling or buying IP at an auction?
- The retail industry takes off
- Introducing the FRAND injunction: not just any old injunction
- UPC delayed further
- Removing unwanted features from a patent claim – is the EPO getting stricter?
- Mergers & acquisitions: IP due diligence
- Patenting the fidget spinner
- Future innovation in Fintech
- Commencement of UPC is delayed
- Unwired Planet v Huawei – a FRAND in sight: licensing guidance from the UK court
- Record number of European patents granted, announces EPO
- A new UK unjustified threats regime – what does it mean for IP owners?
- Oh, gimme a break!
- Patenting activity and the price of oil
- Driverless cars: Grand Deft Autos
- New uses for old drugs – where’s the patent protection?
- Will the UK General Election affect the Unified Patent Court timetable?
- Examination success for R&G patents team
- Patenting the quantum realm
- Augmented reality colliding with sport: a win-win for spectators and participants
- Software and business method patents in China
- Make priority your first concern
- Artificial car noises and intellectual property protection
- Opting out of the Unified Patent Court
- What comes first – Brexit or the Unitary Patent?
- Fun with figures from the EPO Boards of Appeal
- Sailing against the wind in UK Appeal Court
- Positioning your brand on the trade marks register
- Fine tuning protection of IP in professional audio
- US CRISPR interference battle won by the Broad Institute
- Twelve of thirteen (or is it fourteen) – Italy ratifies the UPC
- Innocuous priority
- Solving mysteries with magical patents
- China patent applications top one million a year
- A broad base to the drive for device integration
- Trends in UK IP analysed
- A pointer on poisonous priority?
- Good news for patent applicants – validation in Europe just got cheaper
- Interpreting the EPC – a worrying development?
- Computer implemented inventions in the US – encouraging news on protection
- Nestlé reinvents sugar
- Changes to the EPO Guidelines for Examination
- Food for thought – patents protecting food-related inventions
- A Unitary Patent to be granted in 2017? Or perhaps not!
- Where’s your supporting data? Plausibility at the EPO
- Patent Box: An update
- Reddie & Grose retains top tier ranking in Chambers UK
- Dragons in the East
- The rise of the kite patent
- More musings on patentability in the United States McRo v Bandai
- Milan challenges London for its Unified Patent Court location
- Category: IP news
- The slow death of Neurim – will SPCs for new indications soon be a thing of the past?
- Patent Box in the mainstream press
- Brexit – its effect is felt in IP filing statistics
- UK intellectual property office patents rules and design fees changes 2016
- What’s your priority?
- When looking in from the outside, the world of IP can appear confusing
- BASCOM vs AT&T – Patent eligibility vs Patentability
- Correct me if I’m wrong but…
- The European front of the CRISPR patent war
- Ambush marketing in the Olympics and rule 40 – does it really deter big brand owners?
- Extra copyright protection for designers
- A Japanese court decision suggests a patent with extended term may cover equivalent products
- When competitors threaten to infringe your patent, where do you draw the line?
- The EPO tackles its backlog
- Does IP provide a clue to team GB’s cycling dominance?
- Accelerated examination of US patent applications relating to cancer immunotherapy
- Will Ericsson’s master sale agreement to unwired planet come unstuck?
- GM crops are a seasonal matter
- UKIPO filing statistics viewed through a Brexit lens
- UK Patent Box – part of your business strategy?
- Brexit and the Unitary Patent
- Pokémon Go into the world of patents
- Trade secrets – the EU’s controversial new directive comes into force
- The EPO introduces streamlined opposition proceedings
- Plausibility in the UK
- UK votes to leave the EU – what now?
- And on that bombshell
- Touchdown on earth for space technology
- Patenting activity in the automotive industry
- Are you getting the most out of your UK patent?
- Patent eligibility of computer implemented inventions – recent US updates
- Italy getting closer to UPC ratification – is the finish line in sight for everyone?
- Developing a cure for a myriad afflictions?
- The future for cars: hybrid, battery or fuel cell?
- A method for mildly irritating patent trolls
- Copying film clips is just not fair
- Chopping down patent thickets with declaratory relief
- Death of the omnibus claim
- Trolls, unicorns, giants and patent litigation
- The FinTech revolution: file! file! file!
- China patent filings still booming
- Lay your cards on the table
- How bright is the UK’s solar future?
- Community Registered Designs – from suitcase to court case: the return journey
- Why doesn’t my patent give me freedom to operate?
- Speeding up prosecution at the EPO
- Patent term extensions in Japan – a question of identity
- Translating IP Translator and Article 28 outside Europe
- No fees for opting out of the Unified Patent Court
- Brexit – will there be any change for patent owners if the UK leaves the EU?
- Claim of thrones
- UPC update: nine down, four more to go
- How badly will the 3.5mm jack be missed?
- I recognise that shape – could it be a trade mark?
- Keeping up the PACE
- A new battle-front opens in the CRISPR patent wars – will it be the last great US interference?
- Figurative marks – the quest for clarity, consistency and certainty
- A Christmas present from the European Commission
- What next for biotech patenting in Australia?
- Calling all inventors: time to lock the garden shed?
- What has changed in the UPC regime in 2015 and what can we expect in 2016?
- None of this is real: the patentability of computer simulations in Europe
- The TMs, they are a changin’
- New FRAND developments in the UK high court
- As the PCT Direct service expands, is it time you went direct?
- Scanning for mistakes at the EPO
- Surprising benefits at the European patent office after the Alice v CLS US supreme court decision
- Poisonous priority – closer to an answer
- Patent Box: what are the proposed changes?
- Off-patent drugs bill filibustered
- Off-patent drugs bill second reading
- The Unified Patent Court update: representation rights for European patent attorneys
- Battle of the (fitness) bands – the start of another patent war?
- An update on the Italian position on the Unitary Patent Package – “Meglio tardi che mai”
- Toyota goes back to the future
- Increase in number of EP validation states
- Cars – the next big thing for the tech giants?
- Outsourcing manufacture to China: reduce your risk
- Innovation harvesting: how to recognise inventions and turn them into valuable IP
- Has the court of appeal found that 0.77 is greater than 1?
- 20+ years post-TRIPS – are submarines still out there?
- Software patents and expert systems – what do you recommend?
- Three things all entrepreneurs should know about intellectual property and crowdfunding
- Shiver me timbers! Digital pirates beware…
- Changes in Japanese patent practice
- Brexit – what could this mean for intellectual property?
- Renewing the focus on renewable energy
- Unitary Patent renewal fees – all you need to know
- Sofaworks v Sofa Workshop: CTM blow cushioned by passing off in the UK
- EPO global dossier service extends remit
- Alice Corp v CLS one year on: US patents for computer implemented inventions still being granted in large numbers
- Off-patent drugs bill revived!
- Sweet success for Cadbury?
- Have Tesla Motors changed down a gear?
- Patents: no use for product-by-process claims?
- EPO annual report: Europe continues strong growth, but UK fails to make its mark
- The Unified Patent Court: fees for opting out and opting back in
- Third strike, not out for Skype
- The unitary patent and unified patent court – another hurdle cleared
- Why you should worry about time zones (if you care about patents)
- Scrabble / scramble: why they shouldn’t have gone to Specsavers
- Time to print some new 3D laws?
- EPO enlarged board says “yes” to Tomatoes and Broccoli
- G 3/14: the Enlarged Board clarifies “clarity” in opposition proceedings
- Rihanna, Bob Marley, Robin Williams: image rights protection and trade mark registration
- ASOS v ASSOS: own-name defence saves ASOS from being wrecked on the rocks
- The EPO’s enlarged board clarifies clarity in opposition proceedings
- What protection do Swiss-type second medical use claims provide?
- Grace periods – good for Europe?
- Patents: A driving force in Formula One?
- There be dragons…
- Introduction to new Japan post-grant opposition system
- Amazon: drive-by printing anyone?
- Rubik’s cube: unlocking 3D trade marks
- US & Japan join the Hague system
- #CanIRegisterMyHashtag / domain name as my trade mark?
- SIMPLY not good enough: what happens when your mark is registered in one style and used in another?
- Use of a mark – the insight provided by Specsavers
- Africa is becoming part of Europe
- Centralised limitation of European patents – any opportunity to revamp your case on appeal?
- Patentable Parthenotes
- Poisonous priority – will the Enlarged Board of Appeal allow an antidote?
- UK’s attention to training pays off at European patent exams
- Construing claims without numbers
- The economics of intellectual property
- Unified patent update – spotlight on Spain, Malta & the UK
- Philips & Nintendo’s dispute
- Airbus reimagines flight
- Standards essential patents, the latest chapter
- PCT Direct: searching for Déjà Vu
- Unified Patent Court: an update
- Patent Box? Just call nein nein nein
- ‘Our reasons…are as innumerable as the stars’
- EPO issues updated guidelines for examination
- Obtaining patents is a prize-winning pursuit
- A non-binding opinion with a sting in the tail
- Open access publishing
- Investing in the intangible
- Things are speeding up (and probably slowing down) at the EPO
- Orange is not the only book, old fruit…
- Protecting your Cleantech ideas and innovations – IP and your business plan
- Introduction to IP changes under the Intellectual Property Act 2014
- Electronic patent marking
- Don’t miss out on the opportunity to comment on the latest UK IPO public consultation
- Patent checking is about to become cheaper and easier
- Show me the money – what is the value of intellectual property?
- Intellectual property in biotechnology fact sheet
- Agri-tech research in the UK – a major field of growth
- Scam wars – the UK IPO fights back
- Tesla Motors opens up
- The great yoghurt debate: possessing Greek style, but lacking Greek culture?
- Apple are told they can protect its retail store layout as a trade mark in Europe
- Survey evidence in trade mark proceedings – the parrot may not be quite dead but it’s very expensive
- Alice v CLS – how the Supreme Court case impacts patent applications in practice
- The EPO and the fine art of complaining
- I scream, you scream – we all scream for…milk and milk products?
- Honky tonk utility models
- Victory for Apple, but Samsung takes a bite
- WIPO to make written opinions on patentability available for third party inspection during the international phase
- Japanese patent decisions: Apple v Samsung – the grand panel decision of the IP high court
- I disclosed my invention at a public conference yesterday, can I still get valid protection for it?
- How the EPO can leave you feeling listless – Added subject matter at the EPO resulting from selections from multiple lists
- Will the 2014 Longitude Prize winner patent their technology?
- Definitive US supreme court case on the patentability of business methods
- UK Patent Box news
- Law Commission advises reform of groundless threats provisions
- Black and white marks creating grey all over – the new OHIM practice on black and white marks
- Compensation of employees for inventions continues to be an uphill struggle
- The CJEU gives BIMBOs the cold shoulder
- Unified patent court – Sweden ratifies, Denmark referendum gives the go ahead
- Changes to Japanese patent law – a new opposition system
- Post-grant central limitation in the EPO – a useful tool or a damp squib?
- The Court of Appeal applies the brakes on added matter
- The EPC and the right to be heard
- Changes to New Zealand patent law
- China – a new specialised IP court?
- Robotics: patent trends and future directions
- Community Registered Designs – from suitcase to court case
- ADR in patent agreements
- Japanese patent litigation: Samsung v Apple – the wrestlers in the ring
- Thank you for your (enhanced) cooperation?
- Update on the proposed European unitary patent and the unified patent court
- What does the Nagoya Protocol mean to you?
- IP rights – fundamental for a healthier future
- Patent trends in the hybrid-electric vehicle sector: onwards and upwards?
- Unitary patent court ratification: one step closer
- Tongue twisters in Bocacina v Boca Cafes: “the low cost court that uses costs to encourage lower future costs!”
- Pancake patent search falls flat
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